RBI
RBI’s Rajan plays it tough, hikes repo rate by 25 bps to 7.5%
20 Sep 2013
While rising the repo rate, the RBI reduced the overnight lending rate under the MSF by 75 basis points to 9.5 per cent with immediate effect and the minimum daily requirement of the cash reserve ratio (CRR) to 95 per cent from 99 per cent
RBI clamps down on online forex trading
18 Sep 2013
RBI seeks details of gold stocks with temples
06 Sep 2013
Faced with bulging twin deficits, the government and the RBI are looking at the over 20,000 tonnes of gold lying idle with households and some of the country's biggest temples to ease demand
Raghuram Rajan vows to safeguard `monetary stability’
05 Sep 2013
New RBI governor Raghuram Rajan wants more settlements to be made in rupees and financial markets opened further at a time when the country’s trade is expanding,
Raghuram Rajan takes over as RBI governor
04 Sep 2013
A former chief economist with the IMF who foresaw the 2008 global financial crisis in 2005, Raghuram Rajan has taken over as the 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India
PM calls for new thinking on RBI’s monetary policy
17 Aug 2013
For a policy aimed at carrying out social and economic changes in a country as large, as diverse and as complex as India, he said, a degree of national consensus is needed, at least among professionals
Indian industry slams RBI’s latest forex curbs
17 Aug 2013
Business leaders have warned that the new curbs would severely dent India's strategic footprint in the global marketplace
Rupee plummets to a record low below 62 a dollar
16 Aug 2013
The rupee’s plunge comes on the back of fresh curbs announced by the RBI on overseas investments and remittance by resident Indians
RBI clarifies on gold import curbs
14 Aug 2013
RBI imposes capital controls to prop up rupee
14 Aug 2013
RBI has reduced the limit of overseas direct investment for an Indian entity to 100 per cent of its net worth and limited overseas remittance by a resident to $75,000 per year
Raghuram Rajan appointed next governor of RBI
06 Aug 2013
The government’s chief economic advisor Raghuram Rajan will take over from D Subbarao on 4 September
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